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title: "You ain't hear talk er no dead nigger nowhar dis mawnin', is you, b… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: "You ain't hear talk er no dead nigger nowhar dis mawnin', is you, boss?" asked the old man earnestly. Who acts: You, dead nigger, old man. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XII. As a Murderer, sentence 2

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"You ain't hear talk er no dead nigger nowhar dis mawnin', is you, boss?" asked the old man earnestly.

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**Who acts:** You, dead nigger, old man · **What happens:** not hear, be, ask · **To what, where:** talk, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XII. As a Murderer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, dead nigger, old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:58:2
# text = "You ain't hear talk er no dead nigger nowhar dis mawnin', is you, boss?" asked the old man earnestly.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ai	ai	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
6	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	er	er	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nigger	nigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	nowhar	nowhar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	dis	dis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	mawnin	mawnin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	',	',	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	boss	boss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* |  | You | talk |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer talk=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | no dead nigger | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  | earnestly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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